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Re: pic: Small CIM in wheel swerve

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Originally Posted by AlexanderTheOK View Post
I know sanddrag said that it worked well enough at competition, I have to say the headache caused by this is greater than he may have noted, and took a lot of time out of the season. It's generally just not a good idea to do incremental sensing of anything if it is at all possible to have absolute sensing. Zeroing sensors are a must.
If you embrace incremental, then it can be a huge time savings.

We never have to manually zero sensors, there are no magic numbers in code, and we know we can replace a sensor/system at any time with no new work required.

Every position system 973 has ran all the way back to 2012 has been on an incremental sensor that assumes a zero at start (plus sometimes a manual or automated routine to hardstop zero). We always mean to add the zeroing sensors, but never do as the functionality isn't needed.
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